December 2010
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Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Pulls Funding from... →
The Mapplethorpe Foundation joins the Warhol Foundation in announcing that no more funds will go toward the Smithsonian, unless the work of art pulled by the museum — A Fire in My Belly, a video portrait by [David] Wojnarowicz — is reinstalled. It was pulled last month after anti-gay activists with the Catholic Church and a right-wing news site, CNSNews.com, suggested that the piece was...
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A Gay Soldier's Letter Before Leaving For... →
I’m writing letters to my loved ones in case I don’t return from Afghanistan. I hope my partner never has to open his. If he does, it will ask him to tell who I was, because I couldn’t. Read more here.
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A Gay Soldier's Letter Before Leaving For... →
I’m writing letters to my loved ones in case I don’t return from Afghanistan. I hope my partner never has to open his. If he does, it will ask him to tell who I was, because I couldn’t. Read more here.
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WatchSexy Japanese Safer Sex Video parodies “Little Drummer Boy”
Little Taiko Boy combines Western holiday traditions, Shinto mythology and Japanese gay culture to advocate a very different way of wrapping gifts for a loved one. Little Taiko Boy’s soundtrack is a safer-sex parody of the American Christmas carol “The Little Drummer Boy” interspersed with the slow ...
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“True, there hasn’t been one smoking-gun, bombshell revelation — but...”
– Arianna Huffington, The Media Gets It Wrong on WikiLeaks: It’s About Broken Trust, Not Broken Condoms
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“Leave it to the gays to raise the only underachieving Asian in America.”
– Mitchell to Cam about adopted daughter Lily after realizing all the other playground parents have sent their kids to pre-school (from Modern Family)
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Lawyer of Columbia Professor Equates Client's... →
Matthew Galluzzo, the lawyer of David Epstein, the Columbia professor who had allegedly had a three-year sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter, said to ABCNews.com:
Academically, we are obviously all morally opposed to incest and rightfully so. At the same time, there is an argument to be made in the Swiss case to let go what goes on privately in bedrooms.
It’s OK for...
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Lawyer of Columbia Professor Equates Client's... →
Matthew Galluzzo, the lawyer of David Epstein, the Columbia professor who had allegedly had a three-year sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter, said to ABCNews.com:
Academically, we are obviously all morally opposed to incest and rightfully so. At the same time, there is an argument to be made in the Swiss case to let go what goes on privately in bedrooms.
It’s OK for...
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“The Espionage Act was crafted in 1917 — because President Woodrow Wilson wanted...”
– Naomi Wolf (via ericmortensen)
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“My love for you is full of regret and apology, sometimes leadening my steps. I...”
– From Liu Xiaobo’s final statement during his trial on December 23, 2009, on his love for Liu Xia, his wife. [source]
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Anderson Cooper’s Talk Show's Name: "Anderson."... →
And here we were thinking it should be called, I’m Anderson Cooper, Bitch! But Anderson will do. Coming Fall 2011, bitch!
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Anderson Cooper’s Talk Show's Name: "Anderson."... →
And here we were thinking it should be called, I’m Anderson Cooper, Bitch! But Anderson will do. Coming Fall 2011, bitch!
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Stem cell transplant has cured HIV infection in... →
A must read case of an HIV-positive man (“The Berlin Patient”) who had leukemia who appears to have been cured of HIV from stem cell transplants from an individual with the genetic mutation that does not allow new HIV infections to attach to CD4 cells, and its implication to finding a cure.
(Above, Gero Hütter, the German oncologist of The Berlin Patient)
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Stem cell transplant has cured HIV infection in... →
A must read case of an HIV-positive man (“The Berlin Patient”) who had leukemia who appears to have been cured of HIV from stem cell transplants from an individual with the genetic mutation that does not allow new HIV infections to attach to CD4 cells, and its implication to finding a cure.
(Above, Gero Hütter, the German oncologist of The Berlin Patient)
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FIFA President: Gay Fans Ought to Keep It in Their... →
FIFA President Sepp Blatter (or should it be “Blather?”) has advised that gay fans “should refrain from any sexual activities” at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar where homosexual behavior is illegal. Meanwhile, while talking from the other side of his face, Blatter claimed, “We open everything to everybody and I think there shall not be any discrimination against any...
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FIFA President: Gay Fans Ought to Keep It in Their... →
FIFA President Sepp Blatter (or should it be “Blather?”) has advised that gay fans “should refrain from any sexual activities” at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar where homosexual behavior is illegal. Meanwhile, while talking from the other side of his face, Blatter claimed, “We open everything to everybody and I think there shall not be any discrimination against any...
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How religious "tolerance" is patronizing
In a recent post on HuffPo, Rajiv Malhotra, founder of Infinity Foundation, writes how the notion of religious ‘tolerance’ has clearly not changed much as it has been practiced in Europe for centuries while wars brewed between Christian denominations each claiming to own the pathway toward salvation.
In proposing we supplant “tolerance” with “mutual respect”...
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How religious "tolerance" is patronizing
In a recent post on HuffPo, Rajiv Malhotra, founder of Infinity Foundation, writes how the notion of religious ‘tolerance’ has clearly not changed much as it has been practiced in Europe for centuries while wars brewed between Christian denominations each claiming to own the pathway toward salvation.
In proposing we supplant “tolerance” with “mutual respect”...
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WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Secular Turkey kept... →
UK’s The Guardian reports on WikiLeaks cables that reveal how the future Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Ratzinger, was hostile toward the idea of Turkey joining the European Union because it is a “Muslim state.” The newspaper writes:
The Vatican’s acting foreign minister, Monsignor Pietro Parolin, responded by telling US diplomats that Ratzinger’s comments were his...
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Bernie Sanders 8.5-Hour "Filibuster" Schools...
For 8 hours and 37 minutes, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont schooled the American people on what is in the Obama-GOP tax deal and the current tax code. It was just fantastic to watch the 69-year-old senator clearly articulate the outrageous injustice in our tax system, literally stand on principle, to draw attention and to dispel the distortions that GOP politicians have...
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Speech by Nobel chairman on Liu Xiaobo’s peace...
Highlights from the speech by Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland for Nobel Peace Prize honoree Liu Xiaobo:
“We regret that the Laureate is not present here today. He is in isolation in a prison in northeast China. Nor can the Laureate’s wife Liu Xia or his closest relatives be here with us. No medal or diploma will therefore be presented here today. This fact alone shows that the...
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Scientists Discover the Slut Gene? →
Queerty reports on a genetic variant that appears in individuals who were more likely to have a history of “uncomitted sex, including one-night stands and acts of infidelity.”
Lindsay Lohan must be celebrating her next defense strategy.
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“I was told to withhold a six-inch Harry Potter figure, but when I picked up a...”
– A Salvation Army volunteer, who claims Salvation Army officials told him not to include Harry Potter and Twilight toys in his collection for needy children “because they’re incompatible with the charity’s Christian beliefs.”
The toys left behind were to be disposed of, and not passed on to other...
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WikiLeaks: US monitors 'aggressive' China in... →
China has massively expanded its economic ties to countries across Africa in recent years, sparking criticism from human rights groups, who accuse Beijing of helping some of Africa’s worst governments stay in power.
China adopts a policy of not interfering in domestic politics, while Western countries sometimes make aid conditional on “good governance”.
The cable, published by the...
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Westboro Baptist Church says it will picket... →
Truly the most hateful church in America.
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church announced Thursday plans to picket Saturday’s funeral for Elizabeth Edwards in Raleigh, North Carolina. According to the church’s website, members will hold a protest from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m.
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“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help women.”
– Madeleine Albright speaking to an auditorium full of women at TEDWomen in Washington on Wednesday. (via washingtonpoststyle)